the special local circumstances which

affect those detectives

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9. Nevertheless, it is true that the

Government and the Public have many special guarantees for reliance on the

detectives employed, which did not

exist

They

are

the case

in fact

by hundreds

of the Police Force.

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Keenly watched

pointed

out by Mr. Smith, and as the Executive

receives information privately from all disposed to give it, and there

is impending

over

are

many

The new detectives the rise of being superseded,

as

at least

in the event of information, which should come from them, being

received from others.

Pars. 94.10.

10. It is also

a great

Chinese

questionable, that a number of the most respectable

are now

leagued with the

Government and would assist in

supplying information, which they would scarcely

give if they were to rely solely on the Police, and its own

unaided resources. The improved feeling

of the Chinese residents towards the

Government is well explained by Mr. Smith. The appeal made to them by the Proclamation forwarded in my Despatch (No94/1 of the 6th Ultimo)

gave

The Chinese a most

unusually frank, explanation of the position of the Government, and informed

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